A proclamation in support of Mile High Behavioral Healthcare and its Miracle on Logan Street. 
Thank you, Mr. President. Proclamation 14 0745 is in support of the mile high behavioral health care and its miracle on Logan Street. Whereas, since 1960, mile high behavioral health care has been providing Coloradoans an accessible substance use disorder and mental health treatment. As an innovative leader in the field, supporting thousands of people to recovery and moving into higher levels of functionality and self-sufficiency. And. Whereas, one of the most difficult obstacles for be H.S. clients trained to realize their possibilities and ultimate goal of complete sobriety and self-sufficiency is securing access to safe, stable and supportive housing. Because the streets of homelessness makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to address the issues of mental health and substance abuse and move into recovery. And. Whereas, MH PHC is launching its Miracle on Logan Street program designed to address that. Designed to address housing challenges. Providing a home for women struggling with mental health issues and substance abuse, and working hard to realize their full potential. Being sober, empowered and self-sufficient members of their own families and community. And. WHEREAS, The home at 1150 Logan Street is being renovated to provide eight small apartments for women with dual diagnosis of mental health and substance abuse, and who are enrolled in the Miracles program as well as accommodation for on site coordinator. And. Whereas, residents can stay on Logan for up to two years, during which time they will receive individual family and group therapy, substance use monitoring, parenting programs, social skills development, GED sessions and job readiness classes and assistance , among other types of monitoring and support. And we're as it may be, CHC will hold an open house at 1150 Logan on September 12th between 1130 and 130 for the community to tour the house where miracles will happen and we encourage you all to come. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by City Council of the City and County of Denver that the Council thinks mile high behavior, behavioral health care for the important work it does in the Denver community and supports the Miracle on Logan Street Project and that the clerk show attest and a fix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and transmit a copy thereof to mile high behavioral health care. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Your motion to adopt. I move for the adoption of Proclamation 14 0745. It has been moved and second that comments from members of Council Councilwoman Ortega. So I first have to divulge that I am a former board member of this organization and thoroughly enjoyed serving on this board. Also served on the board of Delta Neighborhood Development Corporation, who formerly owned this property and gave it back to the city. If you all remember, the global housing purchases were Denver was involved in acquiring a number of properties to be made available for people who were chronically mentally ill. This was one of those programs. But Del Norte only does housing services and when the organization who is doing the services moved their clients out and a lot of it had to do with funding no longer available to provide those services. There was a covenant on this property that required that these types of clients continue to be served in this property. And so Dallas returned it back to the city and fortunately Mile High stepped to the plate and is able to continue providing these same types of services to folks in in our community who really need them. And, you know, we've had lots of conversations on this dais about homelessness and the need for affordable housing. And when we have organizations that step to the plate and really do their part in helping meet both the housing needs as well as the. Service needs of people in our community. It helps ensure that these folks are returned back to society and become contributing members. So I want to thank my OGI for their efforts in working to raise the money to renovate the building, to secure the funding for the services that will be made available. And I want to congratulate the board of my own high, who have been fully engaged in this project every step of the way. The city of Denver has played an important role in providing some resources to make this project happen. So I want to thank the Office of Economic Development for their role. I believe the Division of Housing and Bob or Bob or Bob, one of you will talk about some of those sources in just a few minutes. But this is just a great project. And if you all have an opportunity to come by the open house on September 12th, I would encourage you to stop in. This is in Councilwoman Robb's district in the Capitol Hill community played a very important role in supporting this project to to come into the neighborhood. So I just want to encourage support for my colleagues. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Ortega, Councilwoman Kennedy. Thank you, Mr. President. And thank you to Councilwoman Ortega for bringing this forward. I first learned about this property, ironically, when I was. I took a little campaign office in one of those great mansions right across the street, and people would ask me, Oh, you're running for city council. Do you know that this great program that used to be across the street has been lost and you know what's going to happen? And it's taken a very long time. So I want to say thank you to mile high behavior, health care as well as city staff. I know Christopher Smith, who's no longer with the city, was very tenacious in holding on to the property and insisting that it had to be the right provider. Took us a lot of years, but I'm so glad that it's going to be back in service. And Madam Secretary, if I could belatedly be added as a co-sponsor, I would appreciate it. Thank you for taking this challenge. And good luck to the women that you're going to serve. Thank you. Councilwoman Kinney, Councilwoman Robb. Thank you, Mr. President. I, too, want to thank Councilwoman Ortega for bringing this forward. I was not familiar directly with this property until the Mile High Behavior Council or Behavioral Health Group came to visit with me. And even after that, I think it took possibly two more years to actually get this in place, maybe one year to get the funding and another year to get the improvements. They did do good outreach to the community as Councilwoman Ortega references, and the House actually looks much better today, I'm sure, than when you had your office there. So I'm very excited about this, too. Unfortunately, I just found out over the weekend that I will not be able to to make the open house on Friday, but I will be sending a representative from my office because this is definitely a milestone. Thank you, Councilwoman Robb. Any other comments from members of the council scene? None. Madam Secretary. Raquel Ortega, Rob I. Sheppard Susman. I like Brooks Brown. I. But I can eat lemon Lopez. Monteiro. Nevitt. Hi, Mr. President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close the voting and announce the results. 3939 745 has been adopted. Councilwoman Ortega. Who would you like to have come forward to accept the proclamation? I'd like to ask the board president of my own High Behavioral Health Council to come forward. But Bruce and I don't know Bob Turkheimer if you want to join him as well, the executive director for Mile High. So again, gentlemen, thank you for making this project happen. Any comments you want to share? Mr. Chairman, members of council and particularly Councilwoman Ortega, thank you for this great honor. I'm a lifelong resident of the city county of Denver. And I have to tell you that as of last week, that's 51 years. And I can't tell you that I'm so proud to be a resident of Denver and the president of this board . The partnership that. We've developed with this nonprofit entity and the public sector through the Office of Economic Development, John Lucero, Doug Selby, Seneca Wallace and Joe Margolis. They've been so grateful. We're so grateful for what they've done for us. Bob will tell you a little bit about the programing that. Will happen there, but as we open this particular property, we're going to have nine. Units available and eight women who are no. Longer on the streets but on the road to recovery. Thank you for this proclamation and for the opportunity to help assist Denver and its residents on their road to recovery. Good evening, Council. I'm Bob D'alzheimer, proud resident of Green Valley Ranch. I usually have to get that in every time I come down here. There's 11. Go ahead. That's just ranch. Speak for us folks that live in a ranch. Our program, we're very excited to have it will be opening this Saturday, the day after our ribbon cutting. And our main focus is really for the child welfare women through the Denver Department of Human Services that need an opportunity for clean, stable and supportive housing that will help continue to address their parenting needs, mental health and substance abuse needs. A program like this doesn't really exist in our housing inventory when it comes to the therapeutic and sobriety aspects of it. So this is something new. We're all going to keep our eye on and I hope to continue to grow it through our community and keep families intact. The women will continue to do their visitation at the Denver Department of Human Services, as well as attend our treatment services, which are located on sixth and Broadway on the campus of Denver Health. So it's a really exciting opportunity. I can't thank enough for the support of Councilwoman Robb and Ortega that have been with us instrumentally every step of the way. There is a city employee that I found to be so easy to work with and remarkable, and that's John Lazaro. So he definitely should receive some sort of accolades because he's a true professional. And when we wrote for the RFP, John realized that this was a niche in the housing system that wasn't being met. And he was concerned about these women and these kids and made sure that this project came to be our funders who helped get this up. Our wonderful foundation from the Denver Foundation, Gates Family Foundation and the Daniels Fund and other private donors helped us pull this together. The rehab is running close to $400,000, so that old house is now a beautiful new house. That's all this guy from Green Valley Ranch has to say to time to make the commute home. And once again, thank you all. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega, for bringing this forward. We are now ready for their resolutions. Madam Secretary, would you please read the resolutions. From business development? 653 Resolution Approve the Mayor's reappointment, the Cherry Creek North Business Improvement District from Finance and Services Act 67 resolution declaring the intent city and county of Denver, Colorado to use its best efforts to issue housing revenue, bonds or mortgage credit certificates, supervising entire residential facilities for low and middle income families of persons, prescribing certain