A proclamation recognizing the annual Brothers Redevelopment and Denver Employee Volunteer Opportunities Paint-A-Thon Day in the City and County of Denver on Saturday, August 18, 2018.
All right. I see a proclamation coming on next July. All right. Thing no other announcements. We're going to move on. There are no presentations. There are no communications. We do have two proclamations this evening. Councilman Brooks, will you please read Proclamation 892? Mr. President, it would be an honor to read that. I appreciate the time in front of the dais here. Proclamation 1889 to recognize the annual Brothers Redevelopment and Denver Employee Volunteer Opportunities Paint a thon in the city of Denver on Saturday, August 18, 2018. Whereas, through the Partnership of Denver Employees Volunteers Opportunities, we call it Devo and Brothers Redevelopment Inc. 100 plus Denver city employees will volunteer their time to paint homes of deserving senior Homeowners for Brothers Redevelopment Inc 40th paint a thon. And. Whereas, all painting will be completed free of charge from homeowner homeowners, saving the city's fixed income seniors thousands of dollars in home maintenance costs. And. Whereas, volunteers will be beautifying homes and preserving home values in Denver area neighborhoods as a result of their participation. And. Whereas, The Paint a thon is a great way to show that city employees take pride in the community and take care of the residents. And. WHEREAS, the paint a thon truly makes a difference in the lives of Denver's residents. Now, therefore, be a proclaimed of the city and county of Denver. Section one. The Denver City Council recognizes the day of August 18, 2018, as Brothers Redevelopment incorporate on day in the city and county of Denver. In Section two of the clerk in the city and county, Denver shall attest in affixed a seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation, and that a copy be transmitted to the Deveaux board. Thank you, Councilman Brooks. Your motion to enact. Yes, I move that 892 proclamation 89 to be adopted. It has been moved and seconded comments by members of council. Councilman Brooks. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm always honored to, uh, to bring this proclamation forward. I think Brothers redevelopment does an excellent job there. You know, Jeff, I was looking for you. Jeff Martinez, CEO, does an excellent job of taking care of elders in our community and and doing the hard work to ensure that financing is in place for affordable housing for those residents as well. And, you know, Jeff and I met each other when I first got elected. And there are several affordable housing, senior affordable housing units that needed to be attended to. And, you know, you work with a lot of nonprofits and organizations who let's just say Jeff gets it and he cares about the community. And it was it's been such a blessing to have someone who understands the community and cares about it. And I last year next door to me, one of my neighbors who's been living in the whole neighborhood for 46 years, got her house painted. And so I got to see firsthand what that did. And what you don't know, Jeff, is that, you know, our neighbor lost her husband didn't lose. You know, he didn't he didn't die. But he was he's in prison and is not able to help out around the house. And so her house is falling into shambles. And when you all came and there's a whole team of folks from the business community and from the community painting and helping out. I mean, she had tears in her eyes. And you can never measure the impact that you're having on some of these elderly folks in our community. And so this is just incredible. And also, I want to point out that brothers redevelopment is part of. The Land Trust that received $2 million from Seedat to invest in affordable housing. And I can tell you right now, it's great that the GSA coalition came together and got $2 million, the most money towards affordable housing from any community group in divorce history. But it wouldn't be possible if it wasn't because the brothers redevelopments all have anything but good things to say about this. And I'm excited about the number of seniors in our community who are going to be touched by this. So thank you for what you guys do. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Brooks. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I just wanted to make sure that my name was added to this proclamation and just. State. What an incredible organization Brothers has been. They're one of the long standing nonprofit development organizations that's been in our city for almost 40 years, maybe even in excess of 40 years. Started by Manny Martinez, who lived in West Denver, and Joe Huron, who was originally from my dad's hometown of Trinidad, Colorado. And, you know, it's great to see that it's an organization that is still around doing incredible things because we have seen some of our nonprofit housing groups that have. That that no longer exist. And so to know that they not only continue to develop housing, but have continued this annual pain to fund program, it's been amazing. I've had the opportunity to participate and it's a lot of hard work. But you know, the families who benefit are so grateful for volunteers coming out and assisting them with the improvements that they probably otherwise would never be able to afford to do on their own. So I just want to thank them for their ongoing work in our city. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Great organization, awesome event and excited to support with that. Madam Secretary. Raquel Brooks. Clark. Espinosa. Flynn. AI Gilmore. Herndon. Cashman. Kenny. New Ortega. Sussman Black. Mr. President. I. Madam Secretary, please close voting and note the results. 1212 by proclamation 892 has been adopted. Councilman Brooks, is there someone you'd like to invite up to the podium to receive the proclamation? Yes. The man, the myth, the legend, the CEO, Jeff Martinez. Please come to the. I mean, I thought everybody's going to clap and, like, give it up. And I was like, so. It's so underwhelming. I'm sorry, Jeff, but there it is. Okay, good. There you go. Thank you. Thanks. Council President Clark and members of the City Council. You all did the best job of promoting the paint a thon than I could ever do. You just that testimony that you both shared as is so true. So right on. And that's the way, you know, so many volunteers feel after having painted a home for a deserving senior homeowner in our community, and of which there have been so many over the past decade, 12, 14 years. This is Chad LeBlanc, our volunteer manager, who gets up there and coordinates our volunteers every year. And this is that the Saturdays would be such a tremendous opportunity again to work alongside City of Denver. Employees got about 400 City of Denver employees that are going to be out on those ladders throughout the city on Saturday. And you're going to see them impacting every one of your districts, every one of your neighborhoods, from Ruby Hill to my neighborhood. Park Hill, Chaffey Park, Berkeley to Cold Whittier, Montebello, Overland. So we're going to be all over the city volunteering and you're going to have some great events. So we'll try to push our volunteers, their events when they're done on those ladders, helping our seniors. But it is a tremendous effort. We're so grateful, thankful that this is James who's come on up, James. He's working to bring up the Bring Together the City of Denver volunteers with Deveau this year. And again, just such a tremendous opportunity to work alongside the city employees in this effort. Yeah. Hi. Like he mentioned, I'm. My name is James Warren. I work as a judicial assistant over in the county court. I'm also on the board. For Devo Denver Employee Volunteer. Opportunities. As the name might imply. Our goal is to bring Denver employees into volunteer opportunities. We are. Our board is made up from people around the city, not just the county court, the public library, Denver Human Services, and the people who come to our events, our volunteers, our city employees, as well as their family and friends. For us on the board of Devo and I know for the other employees of the city and county of Denver, Civic Service doesn't just stop when we set our office. We have a sense of civic duty that goes beyond 9 to 5. Devo serves to promote the opportunities. That those people hope for. That those people look for to serve their city on a deeper level. And paying a fine is no exception. If anything, it is actually our biggest event of the year. No surprise with that. For the past 40 years, Brothers redevelopment has been and a central asset in the lives of the people. Of Denver, particularly. Some of the more vulnerable citizens of fixed income seniors in our community. But in our partnership with them, which has been going on since 2004, we've been able to dedicate thousands of volunteer hours. Last year we painted our 100th home and we've been able to save. The. People of this city. The. Fixed income seniors of the city, hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs. I think when people see volunteers from the city and county of Denver who work for the city in kind of Denver out painting homes or doing any of the other volunteer projects that we have throughout the year, they're able to see something that makes this such an amazing place that something that makes Denver an amazing place to call home. I think when you see civic spirit, civic service go far beyond the workplace and extend into the community and to service in that way, you get a sense of what sets us apart as a city. And so we're excited to continue our partnership with the city of Denver, with TiVo and with with Brothers redevelopment this Saturday and in many years to come. I hope to see all the letters with us this Saturday. You want to know where any of those sites are? Just feel free to give us a call and then we'll set you up to go out and visit those hardworking volunteers that are going to be on ladders, paint those homes this weekend. So thank you so much. We appreciate you and can do without you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. For our next proclamation, Councilwoman Ortega, will you please read proclamation eight, nine, eight?