A bill for an ordinance approving a proposed Intergovernmental Agreement between the City and County of Denver and The Housing Authority of the City and County of Denver, to launch the new Lower Income Voucher Equity (LIVE Denver) program. Approves an $1,180,000 intergovernmental agreement with the Denver Housing Authority (DHA) through 12-31-23 to launch the Lower Income Voucher Equity (LIVE Denver) program to create immediate affordable housing options for employed workers by connecting vacant rental units with income-qualified Denver residents. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 5-23-18.
We're missing one. Somebody's hanging fire. There we go. All right. 12. No, 66. 94 has been defeated. All right. Next item up is five men. Two. Councilman, will you please put 592 on the floor? Thank you. A move that counts a little 592 series of 2018 be placed upon final consideration. Do pass. All right. It has been moved. And second, it. Um. Councilman Flynn, you're up. Thank, Mr. President. I call this out again to vote no on this. I voted no on introduction last week or two weeks ago, I guess. And for the same objection, we have a lot of housing assistance programs and projects. This one is very similar to things we do in through other vehicles. But I believe this has a few aspects that go just a little too far and primarily that we are looking at filling some vacant units that are that have been built and have not been rendered by the landlords. We're going to fill them by subsidizing rents that, frankly, the market ought to be bringing down in the first place. And one of the aspects about this live Denver voucher program that I that I found particularly difficult is that we are going to not only use our own city funds, but we're going to accept contributions from some of the employers whose workforce whose employees are having difficulty finding housing. And it just I said, wait a minute, why don't they take that money instead of putting it into our housing subsidies and they take that money and pay their workers a living wage so that they can afford to rent a place on their own in the first place. So with those two issues in play, the fact that these corporations ought to be paying their workers enough to live near where they work, and that if we continue to subsidize rents that are above market, then they will never come down. I just can't vote to approve this. I wanted to call it out and vote no. Thank you, Mr. President. All right. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. Again for that one person out there that was watching last week and now this week, the I just want to explain, they will be voting in favor of this as opposed to what I did last week. And that's primarily because of the mechanism like I was talking about then that is created that I think can be an avenue for a sort of income certification and other things going forward with other programs. So there are some some good with the bad and for that I'd rather have the good along with the bad. And so I'll be supportive of things. All right, Councilman, I take it. This is. A program that I had some questions about as well. But the reality is that there are units all across the city. They're not all downtown high end, right. Brand new units. These are units that are available today that can put people who need housing into housing immediately, as opposed to waiting for projects that often take three and four, sometimes five rounds to go through. Colorado Housing Finance Authority to access their low income tax credits for their project. That helped write down the costs that make it affordable to be able to put low income people in those units. So I will be supporting this tonight because it does create the opportunity to address an immediate need. I think it's a program that we need to get periodic updates on so that we could look at what the impact that it's having on the individuals. I had shared the concern that if we were only looking at high end housing, that at the end of the two year period people wouldn't be able to afford to stay in those units. And so it was important to be addressing the need all across the city in finding affordable units that exist in neighborhoods all across the city, which this project does. Thank you. Thank you. So in other comments from Secretary Roll Call. Flynn. No. Gilmore I heard in. Cashman All right. Can each. Lopez. I knew Ortega. Black. Clark. Espinosa. Mr. President. I. Close voting and other results. 11 eyes one day. 11 eyes, one nay motion passes. All right, this concludes. Items need to be caught out. All of the bills for introduction are ordered published, were now ready for the bloc. Votes and resolutions and bills on final consideration members. Remember, this is a consent vote, a consent or block vote, and you will need to vote. Otherwise, this is your last chance to call out an item for a separate vote. Councilman Lopez, will you please put the resolution for adoption and the bills on final consideration of passage on the floor? Excuse me. Sorry. I know what you're going to say. I was going to say happy birthday. I don't know. Okay. I remember that the resolutions and adopted I move that resolutions be adopted in bills and final consideration to be placed on final consideration and do pass in a. Block for the following items. Councilman. There's I don't know if you know, it's 2018 and there's a screen in front of you that you can. I'm old school here. So all series of 2018, six nine. Resolution 690. Resolution six 7681. 691 586. 667. Amazing. 683 642 six. 83 six 645 671. Correct. Madam Secretary, please. It's 643. That's right. Sick. So. 721 and bills for bills on final consideration. 651 614 623 649. All series of 2018 did. Did you say 671 also? Six. No, I think. Thank you. Mr.. I was rudely interrupted. Yes. 671 for the record. And 645. 645 for the. Um. Did you get 649? Yeah. Okay. Six. 49. Yes. Okay. Madam Secretary, do you concur that all of this is correct? Yes, ma'am. Yes, Mr. President. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Lopez, for that. Yeah. Okay. Electricity goes out. It's. It's it's been moved and seconded. Secretary Roll Call. Black eyed clerk. All right. Espinosa. Hi, Flynn, I. Gilmore, I. Herndon Cashman, I. Kenny Lopez. I knew Ortega. Mr. President. I please go to the voting and thus results 12 vice. All right. Do we? I'll. I'll. I'll take, uh. Councilwoman Sussman. Yeah. You know what? Take that down to 12th place because. SUSSMAN Thank you. Councilman Thank you, Councilman Cashman. All right. The resolutions have been adopted in the both have been placed upon final consideration and do pass tonight.