A bill for an ordinance making appropriations to pay the expenses of conducting the public business for the year 2021 and for the purposes required by the Charter and by other law. Approves the 2021 Annual Appropriation Ordinance (Long Bill).
All right. Thank you. Councilman Hines saying no other questions. We're going to go ahead and move on. The next item up is Council Bill 1216. Councilwoman Sandoval, will you please put Bill 1216 on the floor for passage? I moved that bill. 20 deaths 1216 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved. May get a second. I guess. All right. Thank you. Questions or comments by members of Council Councilman CdeBaca. Thank you, Madam President. Just want to call this one out to go on record voting separately on this one again. It's the budget, and I am a no. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman. We have Councilman Flynn. You're up. Thank you, Madam President. I just wanted to point out that under the charter, 7.2.1, this annual appropriations ordinance must be passed. It's our role here is similar to today, what we witnessed in Michigan with the state board of canvassers. This is the annual appropriation ordinance that fills in the budget that was passed last month. And there have been times when I have voted against the budget, but once it is passed, it has to be appropriated. So I urge my colleagues to vote yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilman. Councilwoman Ortega. Yeah. I have two specific questions and I'm sorry I didn't give the agencies a head up. I wasn't planning to call this out, but then when I saw it was called out, I wanted to ask the questions. There are two items in the long bill. One is the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment is. Allocating. It's $1.6 million. And I was it's it's for the relocation of the medical examiner's office. And it wasn't that long ago that they relocated to a site that used to be on the Denver Health campus, and they're now just south of Sixth Avenue. And I wasn't aware that they were moving again. So can you talk a little bit, Will, about what's going on with the medical examiner's office? Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Here's. Here's what I'll say about about that office. I mean, you know, to be true. Just from seeing kind of monthly reports from Dr. Jim Caruso, the medical examiner, we you know, throughout the year, this year, we've seen an increase in, you know, all types of deaths and their their office because of the nature of the work, because of the medical certifications and the different folks that they're required to hire. They've had a hard time kind of attracting and, you know, and keeping the best folks. And they they do they do put a lot of effort into hiring the right people. So what I know is that what I know is that their office, not just this year but has seen a large increase in their work volume. And I. I am not aware of of the strategy and how that all played out. And I'll just tell you that candidly. But I can tell you honestly that. You know, even though my my colleagues from other divisions would would frown on me for saying this, that office is I won't say overworked, but they do they do a ton of really important stuff. And I know this doesn't address your your question directly as far as how that all came about. But what I can tell you is that there, you know, I've seen just recalling now I've seen pictures from inside of the facility, the kind of state of the art stuff that they have now. I don't know that they had some of the support that they always that that they needed and now they do if that makes sense. Yeah. So I guess my question is specific to the million $645,080 that is listed in the long bill that says it's for the Office of Medical Examiners relocation. So I don't know if that cost that applied towards that when it was relocated or if it if that's regarding a new relocation, because it wasn't that long ago they had a big grand opening. We all walked through the facility, got to see, you know, all of what this new facility. And it's much, much larger than the old one when they were in the basement down on Bannock Street on the Denver Health campus. So that's what I'm trying to understand here. And we can only have Stephanie Adams that we wanted to bring up into the conversation. That would be great here. And so we'll go ahead and. Get Stephanie into the queue to answer this question. And let me see. Stephanie. Yeah. Stephanie. If you could raise your hand in the attendees. Okay. There you go. Hi. Hi. Hi, everyone. So canceling our ticket, they are not relocating again. I think that that that is actually a capital a capital allocation. So let me talk I will talk to my friends and keep it. My hunch is that the annual cost of that, it's those costs of the relocation and we happened to name it that India should probably revisit that particular name. Okay. That's helpful clarification. Thank you for that. Of course, you may be want to stay on for my next question. And this one is regarding wastewater management came in under wastewater management, there is a cost of $300,000 for public restrooms. Why is water management paying for restrooms? Typically, that would be a public works cost. It would be a Parks and rec cost. It's not normal that that is a wastewater management cost and it's helpful to know where those are proposed to be as well. Certainly. So again, I believe that the capital cost is actually been on the books for the last two or three years. They've had an allocation associated with public restrooms and I know that they had worked with that was sort of that roaming restroom. You knew how they had the restroom that was going through the city that was actually paid for by wastewater. And I do know that they have been working with parks in particular to understand how they could leverage those dollars for additional restrooms or enhancing restrooms. And I'll find out exactly what the current plan is for 2021. But that actually has been a cost that that wastewater had ALEC has allocated for the last couple of years. Okay. And this is actually for the is that because they want to make sure that we don't keep stretching what we asked the Wastewater Enterprise Fund to cover if they're not allowable expenses. And given the bill that was on the ballot, you know, that was a statewide bill that dealt with the creation of a special. Special funds. Enterprise funds. I want to make sure that we continue to do everything we can to protect this. We all know that the need for restrooms is important. I don't want to minimize that by any means, but I want to make sure we protect that in a fund and not get ourselves in a situation where we jeopardize that. So that's why I brought it. Certainly council and I'm I'm very sure that we cleared that with the city attorney's office before we would have done that a couple of years ago. But I will I will follow up with that. And just to clarify as well, and actually, I did receive a text that that particular allotment is for the second downtown restroom. Okay. All right. Thank you. Of course. All right. Thank you. Councilman Ortega. Councilman PANITCH. Yeah. I just wanted to chime in on this discussion. My colleague, Councilman Ortega, was having I was involved in this discussion with our former director, Jose Cornejo. And the reason for this source for the restroom funding is because when there is public urination and defecation, that those things end up in our inner storm water sewers and they end up in our rivers, and it ends up as part of a water quality issue. And so public restrooms are a mitigating factor to that, particularly, you know, risky environmental issue. And so so so that's the nexus with the fund and the reason why those dollars were dedicated quite some time ago as a partial cost, not for the entire I think it was at one point a 5050 cost sharing. So if that context is helpful to my colleague, just wanted to share that. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Kimmich. All right. Seen no other questions? Madam Secretary, roll call, please. No. Course I. When I. And I. Hi. I'm. Cashman. All right. Kenny. I. Ortega. I. In the bar. I. Sawyer. I. Black. I. For it, I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. When they us. 12 Eyes Council Bill 1216 has passed. That concludes the items to be called out. All bills for introduction are ordered published. Council members remember this is a consent to block vote and you will need to vote. Otherwise, this is your last chance to call out an item for a separate vote. Councilwoman Sandoval, will you please put the resolutions for adoption and the bills on final consideration for final passage on the floor? I move that resolutions be adopted and bills and final consideration be placed upon final consideration and due process. In a BOC. For the following items. Series 20 1263. 1286 1288. 1289. 1290. 1291 1292 1293 1294 1295 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299 1300 1301 1302 1306. 1309 1151 1153 1244 1266 1287. 1307 1082 1312 1229 1217 1218 12 1912, 2112 22 1224, 12, 25, 12, 26, 12, 2712 3012, 33, 1197 Trouble one. Trouble 203 trouble. For trouble five trouble 612 seven trouble eight trouble 912 1012, 11, 12, 23, 1231 and 1232. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded by Councilman Herndon. Madam Secretary, roll call. Black I. For. Sorry. This is out of order, Torres. I think about that. I. Clark. I. Flynn. I. Herndon. I. Hi. I. Cashman. I. To me. I. Ortega. I. Sandoval. I saw your. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close of Iranian announced results. 1313 ays the resolutions have been adopted and the bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass. Tonight there will be a required public hearing on Council Bill 1086, changing the zoning classification for 1010 West Colfax Avenue, 1050 West Colfax Avenue, and 1443 Kalama Street. A required public hearing on Council Bill 1127, changing the zoning classifications for 26, 55 and 2659 Downing Street are required public hearing on Council Bill 1128 Changing the zoning classification for 4820 West Hayward Place A 30 minute courtesy public hearing on Council Bill 1138 approving the 2021 Denver Health and Hospital Authority Operating Agreement and a 30 minute courtesy public hearing on Council Resolution 1236, approving a proposed third and mandatory agreement between the city and County of Denver and Brother's Redevelopment Inc. to revise the scope and services and to revise the scope of services and budget, increase the maximum contract amount and extend the term for the temporary rent and Utility Assistance Program. Anyone wishing to speak on any of these matters must go online to sign up during the recesses of council. If there are no objections from members of council, we will take a ten minute recess. Council members, please remember to turn off your cameras and microphones and we will return at seven. 50 or excuse me. 6:53 p.m.. 653. We will return from recess. Thank you. All their names and cities and presidents and if they feel comfortable doing so, their home addresses when called upon. Please wait until our meeting hosts promote you to speaker. When you're promoted, your screen will flash and say, Reconnecting to meeting. Please do not leave the meeting. You will be reconnected and will need to turn on your camera if you have one and your microphone. If you have signed up to answer questions, only state your name and note you are available for questions of counsel. Speakers will have 3 minutes. There is no yield in of time. A translated translation is needed. You will be given an additional 3 minutes for your comments to be interpreted. You will see your time flash on the screen when you have 30 seconds left. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council Member Sandoval Will you please put Council Bill 1086 on the floor for final passage?