A proclamation recognizing the service of James Jeffrey and Denver Public Library retirees to the City of Denver.
Thank you. It has been moved and seconded comments by members of Council. Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Madam President, of practices names on a couple of occasions and I apologize. I kind of butchered a couple of them. I just want to say thank you to all of these retiring librarians from our library system. This is a lot of institutional knowledge walking out the door, and we all know how critical our libraries are for our communities, especially now. During COVID, they've played a vital role in continuing to provide hotspots and continuing to make sure that people have access to their varying resources. But the work that James has done is is pretty phenomenal. And I wanted to just call him out because he's actually someone that I was working with in assisting me to do some of the genealogy research on my family. And for any of you who have not undertaken this and, you know, logged on with 23 and me and Ancestry.com, a lot of those are connected back to the Mormon Church. And I understand James will speak in a few minutes, but I hear we are second to the Mormon Church in terms of the volumes of material that we have in our library system. And that wouldn't have happened without the hard work of James and his colleagues that work beside him in assembling all of those records. So that when any one of us go to look up, you know, birth records, marriage records, any of those things that are now archived, it's so much easier to do it because you can just go to the Denver Public Library and find those records and find more information on your families. So I just want to say a huge thank you to Ms.. Carausius, to every one of our retiring individuals for your true dedication to our city and our citizens, for the incredible work that you have done and you will be missed. I know there will be a void with people coming into our libraries and no longer seeing your smiling faces. And that will be replaced with with other folks. But thank you, thank you. Thank you for your work. And just want to encourage Michael at least to support this. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilman Flynn. Thank you, madam. Madam President, I just want to add on just very briefly to what Councilwoman Ortega has offered here, and thank the entire library staff, those who are leaving. Losing a lot of institutional memory. But I just want to amplify what Councilwoman Ortega just said about not just the, you know, the Western history collection or the genealogical collection, which I've used extensively in a lot of my research, but to the entire library staff of the city. They are sort of the National Archives for Denver and for Colorado and a lot of the Rocky Mountain West. And they have done, I think, a tremendous job in adapting to changing times as far as how people use libraries and as to how the public wants to use libraries. And I just want to thank them for their service as those who spent so many years leave their careers behind. Hopefully, they'll mentor the folks who will be fulfilling the functions behind them. And I look forward to continuing to work with them. But thank you to the Denver Public Library staff and congratulations to the retirees. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. And seeing no other hands raised, I'll go ahead and convey my congratulations to the library, folks. And, you know, the library was the hub in many of our communities prior to COVID. And you handled so many different issues within the library. And that team are so flexible. And I know they're losing a lot of that institutional knowledge and support. And so we think of the folks that are still on with them, but then also those who are moving on to their retirement and the work that they've done for the city. So congratulations again, Madam Secretary, please, let's do roll call. Ortega. I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer, I. Torres. I. Black. I see tobacco. I. Clark. I. Flynn. I Herndon. At times. Hi. Cashman. Hi. Hi. Madam President. I know the Secretary closed the voting and announced results. 1313 ISE Proclamation 951 has been adopted. We have 5 minutes for the proclamation acceptance. Councilwoman Ortega, we'll start the five minute timer, and we'd love for you to introduce who you here to? Here to accept the proclamation? Yes. We didn't invite every single one of them of you would be here all night, but. And we will get a copy to each one. But I did want to see if James Jeffrey is in the queue so we could call him up to speak on behalf of himself and his colleagues who are retiring. I think we were looking and staff was indicating to me that he's not in the attendees, but we'll do one more. Final look here. He she was not wanting to be singled out. Let me just say that. Okay. And we wanted to acknowledge everybody. But, you know, I try to highlight somebody when I'm doing this that just exemplifies the work that they all do. And so that's why I had picked him, because, you know, we've all worked with many of these individuals, but this was someone that was helping with something very special in being able to compile that family history. So if he is not on, we can move on with our agenda. I just want to once again say thank you to all of them for their incredible. Thank you, Madam President. Well, thank you, Councilwoman. And we we did a look, and we don't have him, unfortunately. But again, congratulations to all of the library folks, and we'll go ahead and move on to the next proclamation. And for the record. Proclamation 952 recognized in September 2020 as National Prepared Prepared statement is sponsored by Councilwoman Ortega as well and has been placed on consent. Madam Secretary, please read the bills for introduction for us. From business, arts, workforce and aviation. 2856 a bill for an ordinance approving a proposed a mandatory agreement between the city and county of Denver and the Denver Housing Authority to support the development and construction of grow market, providing grocery accessibility and workforce training and development from finance and governance. 2840 A bill for an ordinance approving the Mayor's Reappointment and appointments to the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs. 2849 A bill for an ordinance modifying Chapter 18 of the Revised Municipal Code of the City and County of Denver to allow contributions to the Health Maintenance Organization Benefit Plan to be implemented in 2021. 2876 a bill for an ordinance amending the Classification and pay plan for employees in the career service and for certain employees not in the commercial service. 2877 a bill for an ordinance amending the Classification and Pay Plan for employees in the career service and for certain employees in the career service. 2884 A bill for an ordinance making a rescission from an appropriation in the Wastewater Management Operations Fund to make a cash transfer to the Wastewater Management Division's Planned Fleet Replacement Fund from land use, transportation and infrastructure. 2852 A bill for an ordinance approving a proposed temporary easement between the city and county of Denver and Housing Authority of the city and County of Denver for pedestrian access during construction of 1025 North Decatur Street and 2800 West 10th Avenue. 2880 A bill for an ordinance relinquishing the easement established in the permanent easement recorded with the Denver Clinic and recorded at reception number 2020023588. Located at 5191 Yampa Street. 2882 a bill for an ordinance relinquishing portions of the easements reserved in Ordinance Number 279 series of 1995, recorded by a Denver clerk and recorded at reception number 9500046347. Located at South Phenix Street between West telling me two avenue and West Dakota Avenue from Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness. 28 one for a bill for an ordinance approving a proposed second and mandatory agreement between the city and county of Denver and the Regents of the University of Colorado to provide services to individuals living with HIV AIDS in the Denver Transitional Grant area. Thank you. Council members, this is your last opportunity to call out an item. Councilmember Flynn, would you make the motions for us this evening? I guess I will. Madam President. Thank you. Thank you. Now, I'll do a recap under resolutions. Council members say of OCHA has called out Resolution 891 for questions and 895 for a vote. And Council Member Hines has called out Resolution 728 through 735, 741 through 743, 838 and 839, 853 and 864 through 873. All for a vote under bills for introduction. Council members say to Barca has called out Bill 849 for questions under bills for final consideration. No items have been called out and are pending. Councilman Herndon has called out Bill 285 for a vote and the first item up is council resolution 891. Council members say to Barca, please go ahead with your questions on Council Resolution 891, please. Thank you, Madam President. I just wanted to get clarification on what the extension of time for job creation is and how that impacts the project and the community. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman. I believe that we have a staff member. Here to answer your question. Here we go. Go ahead. Doug. I council members. Madam President, Doug Selby, Councilmember CdeBaca. Madam President, the job creation we put in Skyline economic development funds, Skyline housing funds for the housing portion of this project and some general funds for the housing portion under the skyline, economic development, there's a job creation. And so with the developer, the vertical developer now in place and ready to begin construction, closing on the loan is planned for the end of this month. We anticipate the job creation will be done much sooner than what is put in the extension before you. We just wanted to make sure we had enough of a cushion in case severe weather delays with construction. But the job creation should be created through the Community Public Infrastructure Project. Below that, housing, which is still a clinic project. You got it. Thank you. That does it for my questions. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman. All right. Moving on. The next item up is Council Resolution 895. Councilmember Flynn, will you please put Council Bill 895 on the floor for adoption? Yes, Madam President. I move that council. Resolution 895 be adopted. Thank you. Has been moved. Thank you for the second comments by members of Council on Bill 895. Council Member CdeBaca.