A resolution by the Council of the City and County of Denver, sitting ex officio as the Board of Directors of the RiNo Denver General Improvement District, approving a Work Plan, adopting a Budget, imposing Capital Charges and Maintenance Charges, approving a Mill Levy, and making appropriations for the 2019 Fiscal Year and approving an Amended Work Plan, adopting an Amended Budget, and making appropriations for the 2018 Fiscal Year. Approves the 2019 Operating Plan and Budget of the RiNo Denver General Improvement District in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 10-31-18.
Please refrain from profane or obscene speech structure comments to the Council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council is not convened as the Board of Directors of the Rhino General Improvement District District. Councilman Cashman, will you please put Resolution 1242 on the floor? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that resolution 18 dash 1240 to be adopted. The motion and a second. It has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Resolution 1242 is open. May we have the staff report? Oh, good evening, board members. I am Michael Kerrigan with the Department of Finance, Capital Planning and Programing Programing Division. I am before you tonight to give a staff report and request approval for the Reno Denver General Improvement District 2019 Annual workPlan and Budget and a 2018 Budget Amendment. The district is located in Northwest and is located northwest of downtown, includes residentially and commercially assessed properties around the Brighton Boulevard corridor. Generally, the Ideas Center is centered on Brighton Boulevard, stretching from I-70 in the north to 29th Street on the south and bounded east by the Union Pacific Railroad and west by the Burlington Northern Railroad Line . The G80 supports infrastructure enhancements and maintenance in the Reno area, including streetscape enhancements to Brighton Boulevard. City approved formation of the Reno Denver by ordinance number 309 Series 2015 and established the City Council as the ex-officio board of Directors for the District. The ordinance also created the District Advisory Board comprised of property owners within the district. The ordinance specify that the that the Advisory Board should subject to the approval of the Board of Directors conduct and manage all affairs of the District as authorized agent for the Board of Directors. The Reno 2018 Budget Amendment reflects total expenditures and funds fund transfers of 364,631. Budget Amendment is due to savings due to Denver, due to lower debt repayments, lower reserve transfers and lower capital improvements. The District Advisory Board has created the 2019 budget before you tonight. The Budget proposes overall expenditures and fund transfers of $1,001,811 and overall revenues of $849,070. Of these revenues, the district will generate approximately 648,700 through the levy of four mills on real property for general operating purposes. And it will generate approximately $175,000 from the imposition of capital charge assessed on a lineal foot basis on properties adjacent to the Brighton Boulevard for the repayment of debt and for the repayment of debt used to fund the capital enhancements along Brighton Boulevard. Ali Sharpe with Centro Ink is here is also here tonight and available to answer questions. You may have city staff has reviewed the 2019 budget work plan and recommended work paint and budget and recommends it for approval. Thank you. Thank you very much. We have three individuals signed up to speak this evening, so if we could make room in this front bench for our speakers, that would be fantastic. If you are one of the three people who signed up, please come up to the front bench because I will call your name and then your time will start. So that ensures that you get all of your time stepping right up to the microphone. First up, Ali Sharpe. Hi, I'm Ali Sharp. I'm here representing the Rhino Denver Guide. And I'm here to answer any questions you may have on the work plan and budget. Thank you very much. Next up, Jesse Paris. Good evening. Members of Council. Mr. President, my name is Jesse Paris. I'm here representing for Denver Homicide Low Black Star Action Moment for Self-defense and Community Community Action, Commitment for Change. And I am also an at large candidate for 2019 City Council member. I am against this proposal today. Rhino is. A cancer to this community, to the city. It should not be in existence. It's not even a neighborhood bias. Natives. We do not even recognize it as such. But this is to go through with the promenade that is planned to be downtown in 2020 or and what they're calling our Toronto district. This is in response to that. Yeah, I'm definitely against this. You keep you're going to continue to sweep the people all in this district. This is not affordable by any means. Who is this really going to benefit? And yeah, it's just another another tourist attraction, which you have no care or regard for the natives that have been here for 20 plus years, when this was known as the East Side, an abandoned warehouse during the crack epidemic, when there was no safe crack houses. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, Chairman Sekou. Yes. My name is Chairman Sekou Found organized the Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense candidate for mayor in 2019. Representing poor, working poor homeless people. This. Resolution. It's already going to be approved by all your alter teeth because it satisfies all the conditions that were set up in order for to get this thing approved. Now, a lot of people think I'm Jimmy the Greek, but I haven't been down in 15 years operating and watching this process go down. So I know this is already a dog and pony show. The decision has already been made so we can start playing the game. That's number one. Number two, there is no transparency on this because what you have been doing consistently over the 8 to 10 years I've been down here is to proven an apartheid system of white supremacy right here in this town. Right here in this town. Look in the audience. And what do you see? What do you see? White people with only fires and buttermilk up here consistently for the last 15 years. And yet we've been saying the same thing over and over and over again. You still don't listen. You don't listen. And so you want to do what you do. But I'll guarantee I'll guarantee you, as the mayor of the city to Denver, all of this comes to a halt, all of it. And then for those who have the courage, you have to worry about it. You know how to hide. You're not to vote for things that you don't approve. You cannot stand on your dime and represent this city the way you did from a position of consciousness. If this ain't white supremacy, I don't know what it is. And it's been that way from day one, and you know that. So what do we do with this? What do we do with this? With all the people that are listening and looking at this mess, do the research. Do the research, do the research on the Rhino district and what a compromise. It has no diversity whatsoever inside the organization and never has been, never will and has been the model of success for every R.A. in this town that is opposed to the participation of diversity in this town, where it is totally exclusive for white people only. So I'm going to close this. Will. Because my family told me not to come down here that night. Yeah. Who's down to pass the too serious about this, miss. You know what? I can't quit. I'm addicted to this to be body got one of them overdose things we need an overdose serum but folks to come down here. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about your time. Your time is up. Thank you very much. That concludes our speakers. Are there any questions from members of Council? Councilwoman Ortega. I just wanted to ask Michael a question, if you wouldn't mind, coming up. Just to add clarification for the listening audience, does the city have any funding that they put aside for this, or is this primarily assessment against all the property owners who are contributing towards the the cost of the maintenance of the district? Can you talk about that? Yeah, it's so the budget is funded exclusively from the property owner assessments and the additional property taxes on the property owners within the district. And what was the total amount of the budget for this year? Let's see. Did you do 801 $1,001,811? That's the total expenditures and fund transfers. Okay. Thank you. I have no further questions. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Seeing no other questions. The public hearing for Council 1242 is closed. Are there any comments by members of Council? Councilman Brooks. Councilman Flint. Thank you, Mr. President. Just a point of order. On the screen, it shows that's item 1242. But I believe on the agenda it says 1241. I just wanted to ask if that discrepancy is something that is meaningful and does it need to be corrected? You, as usual, are correct. Thank you. 1241 I see. 1241 on the agenda. Madam Secretary, are we? 1241 or 12 4242? 1242 1242. Okay. All right. So we're all good with 1242, so our emotions. Are. Good to go. Councilman Flynn, you. You satisfied? I don't know if I am. I guess I'll find out tomorrow morning if. If the lawyers come back to us and say you didn't pass it. Well, we've got lawyers right here, so we're still. Trying to talk. Well, excuse me. I did not hear the question. There's some debate about this showing up as 1241 on some documents, and we have it pulled up as 1242 in our system. Just double checking that we have the rate bill number on the floor for this hearing. Okay. I will look at that while you are moving through the agenda. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. It's. The agenda that central staff is looking at has it listed as 1242. Okay. And we have 1241. Interesting. Okay. 42. All right. Well, well, well. You're taking a deeper dove. Councilman Espinosa, did you have something not related to the number of the bill? Right. I do. Go ahead. Yeah. Just. Maybe I'm not reading the budget summary. So can you walk me through it a little bit on how that number that you just quoted in, I mean, you cited is in response to previous question is represented on here. Yeah. Thank you. Comment. And I'm not I'm not certain what you were referring to on here. You said it was 1.8 1,001,811. Okay, that's different. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. Are we all good, Councilman, for this? Thank you. I was looking at the bid and not the JID. Thank you. All right. So seeing no other comments. Madam Secretary, roll call. Black. All right. BROOKS Hi. Espinosa. Flynn Hi. Gilmore, i herndon. I Cashman. I can h. Lopez. Ortega. I Susman. Mr. President. Hi. I'm Secretary. Please close voting and notes. Results 12 US. Provides Resolution 1242 has passed. Council is now convened as the board of Directors of the Gateway Village General Improvement District. Councilman Cashman, will you please put Resolution 1 to 4 or five on the floor?