A proclamation recognizing November as National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and National Caregiver Month. 
If someone in your own family suffers from Alzheimer's, please use the resources of the Alzheimer's Association and other groups for support. No one person or family should have to go through this alone. There is no cure and you can help find one by supporting the Alzheimer's Association and other groups. Thank you, Councilwoman Black. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I want to ask first that my name be added to the proclamation. I want to thank Councilwoman Black for bringing this forward. My mother also suffers with Alzheimer's, and I actually served on the board of the Alzheimer's Association. And it was during that time that we noticed some of my mother's behaviors that were just not quite right. And I remember she took a trip. She lives in Grand Junction, and she had taken a trip down here to Denver. And she was driving back with my stepdad. And she had left my sister's home and my stepdad was waiting for her to come to pick him up. And my sister called and she said, I just got a phone call from Dad. Where is Mom? She'd been missing for 2 hours. She got in her car and thought she was driving over to pick up my stepdad and she drove to Colorado Springs. So that was kind of the first real clue that something, something more serious was going on. And in the time that I was on the board, I was like totally in denial that this is what my mother was experiencing. And since then, she was absolutely diagnosed and takes the the medication. She's now living in a nursing home in Grand Junction. And so I know all too well the the trials and tribulations that families have to go through. So I think this is really important to continue to draw awareness to this serious and costly disease. Linda, I hope you'll tell us whether Alzheimer's is whether. Medicine and science is any closer to finding any cures to this horrific disease. But it is, as the proclamation indicated, very, very costly to our our systems and to the lives of the people that it affects. And so I again, just want to say thank you for bringing this forward. And my hope is that one day we can see a cure, too, where we no longer have to keep drawing attention to this issue. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilwoman Canete. Thank you. Mr. President, I would just wanted to share. I, too, have a loved one suffering from dementia and unsure yet if it's exactly Alzheimer's or never form. But I appreciate you bringing this forward and I'd like to add my name as a co-sponsor. Thank you for raising this awareness. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Espinosa. Yeah, I would like to also add my name. Sorry I didn't do it earlier. And because my family is also one that's not immune to Alzheimer's affliction. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments? Proclamation 826. Seen Unmanned Secretary Roll Call. Black Eye Brooks. Hi, Claire. Hi, Espinosa. Hi, Flynn. I gillmor. I Cashman. I can eat Lopez. I knew Ortega. Hi, Mr. President. Hi. Brooks. I. Please cast a vote in the results. 1212 I's Proclamation 826 has been adopted. Councilwoman Black, there's someone you'd like to bring to the podium to receive the proclamation. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to introduce President and CEO of the Alzheimer's Association of Colorado, Linda mitchell. Thank you so much, Mr. President, and thank you for bringing this proclamation forward. The awareness that you're creating tonight is extremely important to the Alzheimer's cause and the Alzheimer's Association. There's probably very few people in this room who have not been touched by Alzheimer's disease. And for those of you who haven't, it will definitely impact your family at some point in the future. There's no question about that. With the aging of the baby boomers, one in three families is already impacted. You've heard the numbers, the cost of Alzheimer's disease and some of the human toll that this disease takes on our families throughout Colorado and throughout the country. In fact, globally, there is probably more than 30,000 individuals living with Alzheimer's disease in the Denver metro area today. And for every one of them, there's at least three families members whose lives have been impacted forever. They're the caregivers, the unpaid caregivers, for the most part that you heard about 234,000 in Colorado already today. So we have a huge public health condition here. We have an enormously burdensome disease on families. This disease has no cure at this point. It's the only one in the top ten causes of death that can't be effectively treated, slowed or certainly cured at this point. But there is good news. Research is moving very rapidly right now. There's a new focus globally on Alzheimer's disease prevention research. And I think some of the most promising research that we are supporting is the identification of biomarkers to identify people who are at the greatest risk for developing this disease and targeting treatments at them at the very earliest stages or even before symptoms occur. So that one day, hopefully not too far in the future, Alzheimer's disease will be like cancer. If you get a diagnosis of a stage one cancer, for the most part, that's quite treatable. Well, we want stage one Alzheimer's disease versus it being diagnosed when it's progressed for ten, 15 years or more and the symptoms are quite prominent . So that's some of the most encouraging research right now. We do have medications that are available if the disease is diagnosed early. And that's another one of our challenges is that raising the awareness in the community, that early diagnosis does make a difference. Medications can be tried. Families can come in to the Alzheimer's Association for services at a very early stage in the disease so that we can help them plan and gather their resources for the years ahead. For the most part, this disease will last 8 to 12 years. And again, that toll on the family increases year by year. The Alzheimer's Association is here in Denver and throughout Colorado to provide services for families at every point in the disease from very early stage through the end of life. We offer a helpline, support groups, family counseling, care planning, education classes, art and music, opportunities for individuals living with the disease and a host of other services. And what's really important for the community to know is that those services are offered at no charge to families. And all of the crazy fundraising that we do year around is to be able to provide those services to all of our citizens in Colorado at no charge. So you can all help us spread that word to. So if you know someone that's in your circle of friends, your neighbors, your church, your community, who is struggling with this disease in the in their family today, please make them aware that the Alzheimer's Association of Colorado is here to serve them, and we want them to come and contact us. We have our headquarters here in Denver near Fifth and Sherman, and then we have six other regional offices across the state. So thank you again for the awareness tonight and the opportunity to speak with all of you. It helps our cause enormously, and we have a very special reason for being proud of the Broncos great football, but also a great organization that is now standing behind the Alzheimer's Association. The Denver Broncos have made the Alzheimer's Association of Colorado one of their community partners, and the ball and family has stepped forward to help increase awareness. And bring attention to this disease. So we're very grateful for that as well. So thank you very much. Thank you. And thank you, Councilwoman Black. All right. That is all for the proclamation. So next we have the mayor's proposed 2016 budget. Councilmembers this year last night to offer any amendment to the mayor's proposed 2016 budget. Do any council members have any amendments to offer?